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Alexei Glukhov was scoreless as Cherepovets got spanked 4-1 by Novokuznetsk. Early in the year, Severstal mat be one of the worst teams in the Superleague.
Anton But had an assist in SKA's 5-2 loss to Novosibirsk.
Kazan defeated Chelyabinsk 5-1. Dimitri Kazionov was scoreless in the match.
[url=vasily-koshechkin]Vasily Koshechkin[/url] improved to 2-1-1 on the year beating Khimik 3-1. [url=alexander-polushin]Alex Polushin[/url] did not play.
Yaroslavl defeated Krilja Sovetov 5-4 in OT. [url=evgeny-artyukhin]Evgeny Artyukhin[/url] was scoreless in the match.

Before the Lightning made their first 18 cuts today, the players participated in the fourth and final round of scrimmages. Recaps are now up on [url=http://www.tampabaylightning.com/tbl/content.cfm?pageid=1712]Tampabaylightning.com[/url].
Team Blue completed the tournament with a perfect 4-0 record by virtue of a 5-4 shootout victory over Team Black today. Although it was not enough to stave off reassignment, [url=darren-reid]Darren Reid[/url] led the way with 1 goal and 2 assists for Team Blue. [url=ryan-craig]Ryan Craig[/url], Zdenek Blatny and Sylvain Dufresne also scored goals for Team Blue and Craig also contributed the shootout winner. [url=adam-henrich]Adam Henrich[/url] had two assists and [url=pj-atherton]PJ Atherton[/url] added a helper in the win. Team Black's goals were scored by Martin St. Louis, Marek Bartanus and Dimitry Afanasenkov. St. Louis also added a helper as did [url=blair-jones]Blair Jones[/url], [url=mitch-fritz]Mitch Fritz[/url], and Brad Richards. [url=karri-ramo]Karri Ramo[/url] stopped 15 of 19 shots faced for the win. Johan Holmqvist stopped 17 of 21 before falling in penalty shots.
In the third place match between Team Red and Team White, Red prevailed 5-3. [url=stanislav-lascek]Stanislav Lascek[/url], in his first game back from a groin injury, sparked Team Red with 2 assists. All of Red's goals came from seperate scorers: Rob DiMaio, Cory Sarich, [url=marek-kvapil]Marek Kvapil[/url], [url=norm-milley]Norm Milley[/url] and Eric Perrin. Individual helpers were notched by John Adams and Tim Taylor. Team White was led by a hat trick by Vincent Lecavalier with assists from Eric Healey and Andy Delmore. Marc Denis stopped 14 of 17 in the win. [url=gerald-coleman]Gerald Coleman[/url] stopped 15 of 16 before giving way to [url=jonathan-boutin]Jonathan Boutin[/url] who allowed 3 goals on 13 shots for the loss.
Nikita Alexeev and Craig tied for the tournament lead with 8 points. Martin St. Louis had a tournament high 5 goals. Richards and Craig each had 5 a leading helpers. Ramo led in record with an unbeaten 3-0-0 mark, Boutin in save percentage at .898 and Coleman in saves with 70.

The Johnstown Chiefs have acquired defenseman John Adams from Florida (ECHL) in exchange for the rights to defenseman John Peterson, according to the Chiefs.
Adams, selected in the third round (82nd overall) by the Buffalo Sabres in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft, recently signed an AHL contract with the Springfield Falcons. The Wayzata, Minn.-native appeared in 42 regular season games and two Kelly Cup Playoff games with Florida in 2005-06, scoring 15 points (1g, 14a). In five games with Springfield last season, Adams recorded six penalty minutes. The 6-2, 193-pound Adams also appeared in five games with the Grand Rapids Griffins and three games with the Cleveland Barons.

In Finland today, Tuuka Rask stopped just 25 of 29 shots faced as Ilves Tampere lost to Jokerit 4-1. Ilves' next game is in two days against SaiPa. Is this perhaps the opportunity for Lightning prospect [url=riku-helenius]Riku Helenius[/url] to make his first start of the year?